On NYTimes.com, Now You See It, Now You Don’t – NYTimes.com

It’s annoying that the New York Times apparently disables my browser’s copy text function. Here is a screenshot instead. On NYTimes.com, Now You See It, Now You Don’t – NYTimes.com. Similar:Homeownership in America Has Collapsed—Dont Blame MillennialsYes, the article is interesting, but I’m…AmusingWhat TV journalists did wrong — and the New York Times did right…

Blender 2.58 Released

After finishing my work for the school year, I have been spending lots of my free time developing my 3D design skills with Blender 3D. The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.58. This is the second stable release of the Blender 2.5 series, representing the culmination of many years…

Enterprise and Shuttle Salt and Pepper Shakers – The Official Star Trek Store

Enterprise and Shuttle Salt and Pepper Shakers – The Official Star Trek Store. Similar:The Last Jedi: Oh, the Feels.No spoilers here. (I managed to avoid al…MediaAnother section of #steampunk control panel. #neovictorian #design #aesthetics #blender3d …AestheticsProfessor Sees Parallels Between Things, Other Things”By drawing parallels between things and…AcademiaThe Loss (#ST:TNG Rewatch, Season Four, Episode 10) Troi's…

Charges Dropped In Facebook Spy Vs. Spy Case | The Smoking Gun

I sense a made-for-TV-movie in the works. In an embarrassing about-face, federal prosecutors yesterday abruptly dropped criminal charges against an Indiana man who they accused of bugging his ex-wife’s automobile. The FBI last Friday arrested David Voelkert, 38, largely on the basis of messages the South Bend man recently exchanged with a purported 17-year-old Facebook friend…

How blogging gives student journalists an edge in the job market

The growing list of student bloggers who have found their way into good ‘pro’ jobs also includes Hannah Waldram, who founded the Bournville Village blog, ended up taking to professional local blogging as the Cardiff ‘beatblogger‘ for The Guardian’s now mothballed Local project before becoming a community coordinator for the same newspaper, and Dave Lee,…

The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise, by Georges Perec – review | Books | The Guardian

…the whole resembles a lightly frothed kafka tale digitised as a text-adventure game thus anticipating later experiments in “interactive fiction” while also functioning as a satire for the author’s day and oh yes our own on the subtly crushing effects of corporate life which was always after all the genius of perec to marry a…

What Do These Thingies Mean?

Perhaps on a different browser there is mouseover text, but on my iPad, I have no idea what these do. A helpful label would be, you know, helpful. Ars Technica Mystery Meat Icons. Similar:I’ve roughed out earthen embankments for the city walls. I know there was at some point a …I’ve roughed out earthen embankments…

Globster

A typo brought me to this page. Weird. A globster, or blob, is an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water. The term was coined by Ivan T. Sanderson in 1962[1] to describe the Tasmanian carcass of 1960, which was said to have “no visible…

Lessons Learned in Playful Game Design – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Lessons Learned in Playful Game Design – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Similar:Emily Dickinson’s Singular Scrap PoetryThere’s never enough time to cover Emily…CultureAnd Now for This Breaking News Report “Police have cornered the suspect wh…AmusingPioneering Harvard Blog Site Wrapping It UpI still use blogs.setonhill.edu, which I…Academia"We Need to Be More Vigilant With What…